Morning journal and courier., 1887-09-08

warned you at the tap of the drum to blow your candle out and retire at night. They called you to come and get your quinine, in fact they were continually calling you But, comrades, there were those who had answer ed their last call, for in the carnage and strife of those three bright summer days ff- ty thousand brave men were killed, wound ed or missing, twenty.seven thousand of the enemy and twentythree thousand on the Union side, among them some of Connecticut's bravest and noblest sons. Here our beloved Colonel, Henry O. Merwin, fought his last fight, Gap tain Jed Chapman, Corporal Cornwall Wilson and Bodwell were no longer among the iv- this as we'll as in previous engagements is bet
 ter told in the language of Colonel Brooks
 sSide by side with the veterans of the army
 of the Potomac it has fought, and by the gal
 lantry of it's conduct won for itself an envl-
 able name and reputation, which may we'll in
 after years cause all who belong to it to feel a pardonable pride in having it to say that they belonged to the Twenty-seventh Con- necticut."
 Comrade Parson Isbell, of Westville, said l he had never made but one extsmpo- ! raneous speech in his life, and that had been of the battle of Chancellorsville, entitled | tsKiernan's charge" He was loudly ap- plauded.
 He was followed by Comrsde Henry F. Peck, who made few remarks on the occa- \ sion After few more expressions of feel I ing an adjournment was taken. Shortly | after which a slight thunder storm broke ! over the park.
 For the first time in the history of the l association it's officers were reelected for a ! second term. They are: President, Captain David $. Thomas; vice-president, Charles Sheyea; treasurer, F. Cornwall; secretary, B.. G. Mansfield.
 The executive committee consists of Henry F. Peck, William w. Price, John Hazel, | William A. Beard, John A. Monson, George F. Dada, W. Merrill, Albert Harrison, W. H.. I Strainiss, J. B. Munson. ! The death roll for the past year is as fol. lows: William B. Ford, Charles L. Beecher, Charles A. Futile, W. B. Gay, c. w. Braetonius.
 Colonel Bostwiok, of New York, the regi- ment's old commander, was unable to be present, and sent letter of regret. The complete and corrected roster of those ! who attended the reunion. yesterday, are as follows:
 Christian Weller, Charles Weidig, Charles sprey-
 Miller. Ferdinand ofeaEher. John Hegel '' -' COMPANY |.
 Wilcox: John I N vv9a watrSus; Sn;b William rhaI9as
 Dnoa Han " EEee Prse smit COMPANY F. Theodore Baldwin, George P. Dudley, David Buell., MT; Futile, M. Thomas; D oviatt, James R: Bradley, Mr. Barnes, James R. Munson, F. Potter Geo. S. Hine, Rodney Bradley, Henry A. Clark, E. l E. Page, A. A. Bradley. COMPANY A. F. M. Chapman, H. C. Chapman, Simeon J. Fox, Willis Isbell, Robert Arnold, Thomas Wallace, J. | W. Merrills, George Stevens, George Stoue, D. Bradley, Frank Bradley, Conrad Hofacker. s. A. l Hopkins.
 c. B. Brooks, E. H. Darlington, E. B. Baldwin. 1 Dennis Baldwin, J. L. Amber, J. E. Wixon, H. M. Staunton Sylvester R. Snow, William A. Beard. O. ! Nash J. B. Clark, Fred Cornwall, A. E. Clark, A. | Wheeler
 Captain David S. Thomas Henry Horton, John | Sherwood, Frederick Lundberg, George T. Dade 1 Edward Baldwin, John Hartsborn, George Elkins l George Hungerford James ". Rice, Edwin Roshea- | COMPANY O. L. Ely, Daniel Avsrill S. S. Cook, Charles A. I Young, H. D. Boarlman, H. ". Hubbard. E. D. mer. E. O. StoHe Nathan Harrison, Samuel Black. ! H. G. Shepard, W. E. Fowler, Edwin Milford, E. B Dibble, W. A. Tyler, Henry Camp, Roger Hall, J l E. Page, Edward Parsons. i CoMPANYG.
 l William H. Stains A. J. Pufns, E. F. Skinner l Peter Dunbar, Allen D. Baldwin Frank o. Gladwin l Clark, William O. Scobie, Merritt A. Yale W. & ! Bronson, J. E. Pierpont.
 | COMPANY E.
 | Henry F. Peck A Hastings, A. Johnson, Rue P | Cowles, William A. Parme;ee N. A. Tanner, David 1 Ford, M. Olmstead, Alexander Conerty.
 COMPANY D.
 ! Frank H. Smith, John A. MunSon, James John Futile, Lewis w. Hotchkiss Charles H. Nichols. The honorary members of the association ars 1 General S. E. Merwin, Hon, N. D. Sperry and Cap 1 tain John G. Chapman.